make a tab delimited file from array or object

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ok .. so I have this object and I want to make a tab delimited text file from it.

 

here's what I have so far.

 

function create_tab_file_from_object($the_object)
{
       $string = '';
       foreach($the_object as $val)
      { 
              $string .= $val.'\t';
      }
       //drop last tab
       $string = substr($string,0,-2);
       filename = 'test_file_pickup.txt';
$fp = fopen('/filepath/'.$filename,'w');
fwrite($fp,$string);
fclose($fp);
}

 

when i run this i get a text file that looks something like this

field1\tfield2\tfield3\t ... and so on.

 

How do I get php to make an actual tab delimited file I can open in notepad or excel or whatever..

 

Thanks in advance,

C

[severndigital]

DANG .. I ALWAYS SOLVED THESE 3 SECONDS AFTER POSTING .. it was my '\t' instead of "\t"